Obama's Green Ethanol Bureaucrats Starve The Poor

Nor is the even more tangible problem of drought — which has shriveled corn harvests in the Midwest — good enough for an economic damage waiver.

"The agency has not found evidence to support a finding of severe 'economic harm' that would warrant granting a waiver of the Renewable Fuels Standard," the EPA said in a statement in November. "We recognize that this year's drought has created hardship in some sectors of the economy, particularly for livestock producers. But our extensive analysis makes clear that Congressional requirements for a waiver have not been met and that waiving the RFS will have little, if any, impact."

This attitude, given the drought, famine and impoverishment, makes one wonder just what it would take for the EPA to issue its waiver.

In reality, it's a callous sign of a government agency so wedded to its green agenda it will rationalize any man-made famine or other unintended consequence of its policy for the sake of its environmental purity.

Stalin operated that way, and so did all the other global creators of hunger.

The astounding thing is that it's now the U.S. that's creating it, a byproduct of the Obama economy and its immoral green agenda.

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